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Miguel León-Portilla (22 February 1926 – 1 October 2019) was a Mexican anthropologist and historian, specializing in Aztec culture and literature of the pre-Columbian and colonial eras. Many of his works were translated to English and he was a well-recognized scholar internationally.
Miguel León-Portilla. Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. Historiador. Ingreso: 23 de marzo de 1971. Para guiar a los hombres que aquí habrían de vivir era necesario rescatar la raíz de la antigua cultura, el testimonio del recuerdo, la conciencia de la historia.
Miguel Luis León Portilla (Ciudad de México, 22 de febrero de 1926-Ciudad de México, 1 de octubre de 2019) [1] fue un historiador, filósofo, escritor, diplomático y académico mexicano, experto reconocido en materia del pensamiento y la literatura de la cultura náhuatl.
Professor Miguel León-Portilla is the foremost scholar on the language and culture of the Nahua people, also known as Aztecs, who had a well-established and distinguished civilization in Mexico long before the Spanish arrived in the early 16th century.
Miguel León-Portilla is a leading Mexican scholar of ancient Mexican literature, philosophy, and culture. Born on February 22, 1926, in Mexico City, Léon-Portilla received B.A. degrees at the Instituto de Ciencias in Guadalajara (1944) and Loyola University in Los Angeles (1948).
Jul 10, 2024 · After a long hospital stay, Mexican historian and philosopher Miguel León-Portilla passed away on October 1, 2019, at the age of 93. His prodigious work is known throughout the world because classics such as La filosofía náhuatl (León-Portilla 1956), Visión de los vencidos (León-Portilla 1959), Los antiguos mexicanos a través de sus ...
On October 1, Miguel León-Portilla, a distinguished Mexican scholar and collaborator of the Academy of American Franciscan History, died in Mexico City at age 93.*
